Post by on Jul 17, 2009 6:32:29 GMT

Please dont tolerate or encourage sexual jokes in chat room for the below reasons and facts found out by Canandian and British studies ;-------------------------------------------------------------"In order to carry out this research work, the scientists applied several questionnaires to a group of 109 university male students aged between 18 and 26 years old. They showed them two series of jokes, one of them with sexist jokes where women were denigrated and another one with common jokes, without any kind of sexist content. Next, the researchers proposed them several scenes with different cases of battering against women, from minor to serious attacks, to ask them how they would react in this kind of situation.

The work proved that those who had listened to sexist jokes were much more tolerant with male battering than those who had not, this is, that this kind of humour favours the mental mechanisms tolerant with violent behaviour towards women. However, the researchers warn those individuals affected by sexist humour showed a previous tendency to tolerate violence against women, as we can gather from a survey which weighed up sexist attitudes against women.

Some of the items of the scale used by the scientist to measure men's sexist attitudes were: "Deep down, feminist women intend women to be more powerful than men", "Most of the women do not fully appreciate what men do for them" or "There are many women who make sexual insinuations to men and later they reject their advances just to make fun of them".

More information: The results of this research work have been accepted to be published in the 'Journal of Interpersonal Violence'.

Source: University of Granada"

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TORONTO - New research has ’sage advice’ for employees and employers: avoid sexual behaviour at workplace at all costs.

Even harmless, non-harassing sexual behaviour - such as raunchy jokes which may get you laughs - at workplace hurts employees and employers in the end, warns a Canadian study.

The study carried by researchers at the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver says that any kind of sexual behaviour at the workplace does not benefit employees and the organisation.

In summing up their study, researchers Monday cautioned employees to ‘be careful of that raunchy joke that gets all the laughs. ‘As funny as folks at work may find it, it is probably hurting morale.”

As part of their study, the Canadian researchers surveyed more than 1,200 manufacturing, social service and university employees to know ‘about their psychological well-being, work withdrawal, and exposure to sexual behavior at work.”

They looked at the effect of sexual jokes, innuendo, discussions of sexual matters or flirtation in the workplace.

The researchers also investigated whether men and women got anything positive out of the sexual behaviour such as enjoyment and social bonding, the statement said.

After the survey, they found that though about 25 percent of employees found sexual behaviour fun and flattering, it didn’t have any positive impact on them.

‘Even employees who enjoyed the (sexual) behaviour tended to withdraw from work, felt less valued and reported depressive symptoms more often than employees who experienced little to no sexual behaviour at the office. ‘The results were found among both women and men, working in manufacturing, social service and university jobs,” the researchers said the statement.

‘We approached the study with an open mind,” said Toronto university professor and study co-author Jennifer Berdahl. ‘We thought, maybe these behaviours are a positive thing for employees who enjoy them. And then we found that they weren’t,” she said. Berdahl said the findings should be treated as ’sage advice’ to avoid sexual behaviour on the job.

‘In our culture, sexuality has these connotations of domination, subordinance and vulnerability.

‘Often a dominating behaviour is a way of making someone squirmy. Why bring this into the workplace?’ Berdahl said.

Post by Leon on Jul 17, 2009 15:36:49 GMT

Very Wise words spoken there Suhas, I myself will not tolerate the company of men or women that talk in a crude way. I hope others read these words and can see that what people learn from others, is usually passed on or taught to their friends or siblings, whether these are good or bad ways.